Ella von Paus

Gabriele (or Gabrielle) Stein, nicknamed Ella.

Born on 20 October 1883 in Vienna, died 3 November 1971 in Oslo.

She was the daughter of the lawyer (Hof- und Gerichtsadvocat) in Vienna August Stein (1852–1890) and Josefine Elisabeth Wagner (1850–1933). Her father was Jewish, while her mother was baptized as a Catholic in 1850. Her parents married in the Viennese Jewish community in 1877. Her father August grew up in the Jewish quarter near Judenplatz. In 1877 her father left the Jewish community (cf. Anna Staudacher (2009). «... meldet den Austritt aus dem mosaischen Glauben»: 18000 Austritte aus dem Judentum in Wien, 1868–1914: Namen – Quellen – Daten. Peter Lang. p. 8. ISBN 9783631558324. «Stein, Dr.jur. August (...)»).

On 23 May 1885 Ella and her brothers Arthur (b. 1878) and Otto (b. 1885) were baptized as Catholics in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. The following year, both on 28 January 1886, their father was baptized as a Catholic and their parents married in a Catholic ceremony, despite already being married for nine years.

On 8 April 1908 in Vienna, Ella married Lieutenant Thorleif (von) Paus, the Norwegian Consular Secretary in Vienna and de facto main representative in Austria-Hungary who was later formally promoted to Vice-Consul and acting Consul-General.

Addresses:

• (1880s) Bäckerstrasse 14
• (1880s) Bäckerstrasse 3
• (as of 1890) Naglergasse 2
• until 1911: Marokkanergasse 11, Vienna
• 1911–around 1918 Auhofstraße 78C, Vienna
• no later than 1933 until 1938: Wittegasse 8, Vienna
• 1939–1954 Frederik Stangs gate 40, Oslo
• 1954–1971 Flyveien 15, Oslo

Adresser i Wien: https://www.mapcustomizer.com/map/SteinPaus

• De lyserøde (nr. 7 og 8) er der Thorleif og Ella Paus bodde sammen
• Den lyseblå (nr. 9) er der Ella bodde etter skilsmissen fra Thorleif
• De grønne (nr. 4, 5, 6) er der Ella bodde som barn med foreldrene
• De røde (nr. 1, 2, 3) er der Ellas besteforeldre Alois og Karoline Stein bodde, i tekstilkvartalet der Alois var kjøpmann

NOTE: Despite the fact that both were called Ella, she is unrelated to Ella Glückstadt (born 1899), the Danish second wife of her former husband Thorleif Paus. Hence there were two women, married to the same man, and both Jewish, whose married names were Ella Paus.